Flightradar - some poor passengers really aren't landing at Madeira at the moment

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2 landing attempts and still not down.

I think it's windy there

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Madeira is known for this (8th most dangerous airport in the world).
I’m ex travel industry and several times a season we’d have a flight diverted and overnighted elsewhere, usually Port Santo but a few times Faro.

Well here goes my productive morning!

I immediately want to know the most dangerous airports 1-7.

What happens if you are diverted? Do you have to stay on the plane or do you get off and have to go through security etc again?

Here's the linky-link.

https://www.flightradar24.com/build-your-own

It cost me about £120 in parts to get it set up and running but then I get a FREE business plan subscription which is worth about $500 annually.

However, if you live near certain airports where extra data is required, you can get it all free - this is the 'most wanted' list:

https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/most-wanted-receiver-locations/

Our flight was delayed from Madeira because it was windy, whereas it probably would have been ok from another airport

This is my morning gone now!

Just been on it for the first time. Am overly excited that if you click on a helicopter flight the blades are twirling!

@Ozgirl75 the pilot talks through how to land too

Has anyone noticed that many more planes are coming up as 'blocked' now? Is it because I'm using the free version?
The other TAP one looks to be diverting now too. My mum and dad are off to Madeira next week, I wonder if they know about the airport!

So what is Porto Santo like - can it accommodate so many extra passengers?

Last time I went to Madeira I had a 26 hour delay on the return due to winds. There's an outdoor area after check in and we spent hours watching planes attempting to land in the wind 😱 Gorgeous island, horrible airport!

@BasilParsley that's fascinating, thank you for sharing!

I am a FR nerd 🧐 How do you find the most tracked on the app ?

Well now I know what I'm going to spend the rest of my morning doing...

What with that and lightningmaps.org, my housework will have to wait!

Interesting and quite scary the first time!

I had an interesting watch last week. I was working from home and heard a strange sounding plane above the house so quickly looked it up on FR. It was supposed to be landing at an airport that I'm not on the flight path fie and after several attempts it landed elsewhere. I couldn't work out why though.

I assume Easyjet don't like to divert. That one from Lyon has been up there for ages.

Uksnowmap when snow is due, too 😁. I can waste hours on these sites!

Looks like TP1687 fed up and heading back to Lisbon?!

Bloody love Flight Radar. I have the app on my homescreen, I use it so much. We seem to live on the flight path from Brize Norton and get some huge/fast/noisy military planes over, which rarely show up - so annoying.

@BasilParsley

I'm sad enough that I've got one of their antennas attached to my roof

Thank you for your service...😁 Locally we're in a bit of an FR hole, certainly at low altitude and I've thought about doing similar but can't justify the spend.

Re Madera...never been there but know for many airlines it's a " visit" airport..i.e. the first time a pilot goes there need to go with a trainer... These days with the improvements a lot more of those sorts of clearances can be done in the simulator.

No idea what the worse 7 airports in the world are, or even how you'd define it. There are a few in Central/South America and also in Asia which have nasty combinations of being at high elevation, surrounded by high terrain and also subject to occasional nasty weather...places like Mexico City and Bogota can be interesting.

Try looking at ADS-B exchange, not as user friendly as FlightRadar but it tends to filter out less military and other traffic:

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/

Four planes are trying to land!

Well this is certainly putting me off going to Madeira!